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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 inIssue 102 FREE Email: [email protected] Thousands expected in Waterloo at Bankside Frost At the lighting of Children will be able to enjoy husky Waterloo’s Christmas sledding rides at this month’s Frost Fair Tree there will be a Pigs on Bankside. & Princesses theme to The three day fair opens at 4pm on Friday 15 mark the launch of the December with a lantern procession from Southwark Cathedral to . Young Vic’s family show This will be the fourth Frost Fair to take place along The Enchanted Pig. the River Thames since the historic fair was revived in 2003. The lights switch-on will be Now the fair is described as ‘London’s biggest free winter just part of an all-day ‘Christmas event’ and attracts over 100,000 visitors. at Waterloo’ programme on For this year’s event Shakespeare’s Globe is transforming Thursday 7 December organised its undercroft into a market with a winter wonderland of by the Waterloo Quarter Business snow covered fir trees and twinkling lights. Visitors will be Globe and a Bankside gift pack upon arrival at the hotel. To Alliance (WQBA) in partnership entertained by musicians in Elizabethan costume. qualify visitors simply quote ‘BBFF’ when booking. with Lambeth Council, local During the 1564 freeze people took to the ice for what “We are delighted to have increased Better Bankside’s businesses, community groups, arts was the first Frost Fair. Since 1814 the river has failed to financial support for the Frost Fair as part of the company’s organisations and the Police. See freeze due to its narrowing and the loss of Old London growing focus on area promotion which is one of its seven listings on page 3 for details Bridge. So on Saturday at noon a traditional Thames core themes, explains chief executive Peter Williams. “The “Christmas at Waterloo is Cutters boat procession will cross the water from the City Bankside Frost Fair is one of the things that makes Bankside an event that brings together all to Bankside Pier. a vibrant place for local employees, local residents and elements of the local community,” Other attractions include ice sculpting, an outdoor visitors alike.” says Lady Samuel, chair of the market, street entertainment, bands and choirs. A beer Cllr Lorraine Zuleta, Southwark Council’s executive WQBA and managing director of tent will have and festive food including roast member for culture, leisure and sport says: “Bankside is the the Old Vic Theatre Company. “It chestnuts and a hog roast. place to be this Christmas. Husky sledding has to be one is a fantastic opportunity for us to Bankside Gallery is offering visitors the chance to win a of the most fun things on offer for children in the festive showcase all that Waterloo has to weekend break in the New Forest. Over the weekend there period and the fair is also a great way for companies to offer, from its quirky, independent will be family workshops run by attractions and busineses to start off their office - and it doesn’t involve booking businesses to world class arts give a hands-on experience of real Bankside. ahead. activity and an active and engaged Better Bankside has put together a Frost Fair Package “Being able to bring the historic Frost Fair back to local community. Waterloo which includes an overnight stay at the Novotel, Mercure life has been a great achievement and will guarantee that Quarter Business Alliance is or Southwark Rose Hotels, free entry to Shakespeare’s Bankside sparkles again this winter. delighted to be leading on this.” FRANK HARRIS Spice of India and COMPANY AUTHENTIC RECIPES freshly prepared by RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT our award-winning chef 123 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk NOW OPEN Open 7 days a week 12 noon-2.30pm & 5.30pm-11.30pm

Takeaway – 10% discount a warm welcome awaits you at 65 The Cut • South Bank • SE1 8LL 020 7928 1286•020 7928 5280 December 2006 2 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 FOOD & DRINK South Bank in SE1 Joe’s Kitchen fireworks on 27 Blackfriars Road 5-7 Marshalsea Road • 020 7939 1490 London SE1 8NY Details of Joe’s Kitchen and all SE1 restaurants at www.London-SE1.co.uk New Year’s Eve TEL 020 7633 0766 Joe’s Kitchen just along from Borough Station is a FAX 020 7401 2521 The South Bank will be EMAIL [email protected] bright spot on an otherwise dull stretch of road. lit up by fireworks on WEB www.inSE1.co.uk The light wood tables and simple decor gives this café the feel of a Scandinavian coffee house. But the rare tins of Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls from New Year’s Eve. © 2006 Bankside Press Wigan remind us that this is . The display, organised by the ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) There is a communal table as well as tables for two and even high chairs for Mayor of London in conjunction with ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) children. A pile of or toys can be enjoyed as you wait for your food or Visit London, will be on the river next just enjoy the good coffee (cappuccino £1.95). to the British Airways London Eye. EDITOR Service was swift but we experienced a wait for our food. However, when it This year’s display is being Leigh Hatts came we knew why. It was freshly cooked and hot but not hot from being under produced by award winning London a hotplate. The dishes of the day such as Cumberland sausage and mash (£7.95) based experiential communications PRODUCTION EDITOR agency Jack Morton Worldwide James Hatts are on a blackboard. Specialities include Roasted Mediterranean Vegetarian Pie with feta cheese, pine nuts and salad (£7.95). and internationally renowned pyrotechnician Christophe CONTRIBUTORS Our cottage pie was unusually in pastry and came with swede, carrots and Berthonneau. Marion Marples potatoes (£7.95). The burger was huge with a fried egg, chips and salad (£8.50). Both were filling. The show is being designed to be PRINTED BY Copyprints Ltd The takeaway menu has sandwiches (from £4.25) and a croque monsieur big enough, and loud enough, to be (£4.95). seen from high ground, balconies and ADVERTISING It is hard to believe that this is a chain but it is underneath the Joe’s Kitchen gardens all over the capital and it is For details of our competitive HQ which is maybe why the standard is so high. being screened uninterrupted live on rates call us for a rate card BBC One. on 020 7633 0766 or email Last year, around 150,000 people [email protected]. You can also Check out our comprehensive are estimated to have watched the download our rate card from capital’s New Year’s Eve fireworks www.inSE1.co.uk guide to local restaurants & pubs with millions more seeing the it on television across the UK and overseas. SUBSCRIPTIONS Mayor of London Ken To receive the next 12 issues Livingstone says: “London now hosts by post in the UK please send a cheque for £8 to the address www.London-SE1.co.uk/restaurant the best New Year’s Eve fireworks above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. display in the world and is seen Please specify starting issue. on TV by millions in Britain and tens of millions internationally. LISTINGS INFORMATION in The New Year’s Eve fireworks are Listings are free; details of another spectacle, making London a events to be considered for CALL the YARD wonderful city to visit over Christmas inclusion next month should and the New Year.” be sent by Wednesday 20 Most of the big and December by email or by post. successful local firms New Year Events DISCLAIMER do when Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of they have Bankside our listings but all details something to www.thelionspart.co.uk are subject to alteration by Saturday 6 January say and they TWELTH NIGHT venues and organisers and no 12 noon; free responsibility can be accepted would like us A celebration of the New Year, for any inaccuracies. mixing ancient seasonal customs with contemporary festivity. It is free, to give a sharp accessible to all and happens whatever the weather. To herald the celebration, londonse1 edge to it. the extraordinary Holly Man decked community website in fantastic green garb and evergreen foliage, appears from the River Thames PRINT brought by the Thames Cutter Master We also publish a community COPIES Shipbroker (boat subject to weather!). website, updated daily with With the crowd, led by the Bankside REPORTS Mummers, the Holly Man ‘brings in the local news and features and a green’ and ‘wassails’ or toasts the people lively discussion forum. Visit it BROCHURES and the River Thames - an old tradition today at www.London-SE1.co.uk encouraging good growth. The Globe is Communication wassailed in like fashion. The Mummers of all kinds then process to the Bankside Jetty, and perform the traditional ‘freestyle’ Folk Combat Play of St George. The play is [ SE1 Direct ] full of wild verse and boisterous action, Copyprints Ltd a time-honoured part of the To ensure that you don’t recorded from the Crusades. Cakes BUSINESS CENTRE distributed at the end of the play have a miss out on anything that’s 1 Talbot Yard bean and a pea hidden in two of them. happening in SE1, make sure Those who find them are hailed King and SE1 1YP Queen for the day. They then lead the you receive our weekly email people through the streets to the historic newsletter, SE1 Direct. Sign up www.copyprintsltd.co.uk George Inn in for a fine warming up with today at www.SE1direct.co.uk. Storytelling, the Kissing Wishing Tree and With 5,200 email subscribers, Phone 020 7407 2079 more dancing. can you afford to miss out? Fax 020 7403 5411 December 2006 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Living Space St Andrew’s 1 Coral Street Short Street What’s On SE1 www.living-space.org.uk in Wednesdays 13 & 27 December Monday 4 December MEDITATION FOR PEACE December 2006 SE1 UNITED RECRUITMENT OPEN 6.30pm Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday. A EVENING ORIGINAL AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL EVENTS GUIDE response to the critical situation in the 5pm-8pm world and our community. Experience SE1 United is looking for youth workers, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre of meditation not essential. Open to Special Events youth researchers, workshop leaders and everyone, faith or no faith. Elephant and Castle volunteers to run its dynamic youth-led Tate Modern Community Garden programme of events and activities in Friday 1 & Saturday 2 December Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Bankside & Shakespeare’s Globe CROSS RIVER TRAM CONSULTATION Southwark and Lambeth. For more www.tate.org.uk/modern Bankside From 12 noon information call Natalie Bell on 07984 Cross River Tram (CRT) would link Euston 205 592 or get an application pack from Saturday 2 December Friday 15 to Sunday 17 December and Waterloo with branches to Camden Living Space reception, 1 Coral Street, WORKSHOP BANKSIDE FROST FAIR Town and King’s Cross in the north and London SE1 7BE. 11am-3pm; free Fri 4pm-9pm; Sat 10am-9pm; Sun 10am- Brixton and Peckham in the south. Find Get involved by using foraged materials 6pm; free out what this scheme would mean for London Glassblowing from the Thames including Victorian roof Bankside will yet again be home to you at the roadshow, complete with full- tiles, ceramic pieces and other found Weston Street T 020 7403 2800 materials to help make the community the 4th annual Frost Fair outside Tate size tram. The event will take place in the www.londonglassblowing.co.uk shopping centre and at the new ecopod garden mosaic. If you would like to Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe. Last Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; free year’s event attracted more than 100,000 outside the leisure centre. come along contact synthia.griffin@ people making it London’s largest free tate.org.uk or 020 7401 5176. Until Sunday 3 December winter event. This year’s event will Sunday 3 December WOOLLY SNOWBALLS CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE AND Tuesday 12 December host a winter market, ice , TREE DRESSING DAY workshops, music, street theatre, a beer 2pm-4pm; free SALE Eccentric knitter-artist Rachael Matthews 11am-5pm 10.30am-12.30pm; free tent selling mulled wine, an ice bar and Make Christmas pomanders and workshop, as seen on The Culture Show. Visitors can purchase a signed copy of festive food including roasted chestnuts decorations out of found materials and and a hog roast. The star attraction Making woolly snowballs for Christmas founder Peter Layton’s new book as well (for all ages). An Elefest event. the trees with recycled materials If this year is free husky sledding rides for as beautiful glass items. you would like to come along contact synt children under 12. Young visitors will also Fashion & Textile Museum [email protected] or 020 7401 5176. get the chance to have their photo taken Menier Gallery hugging a husky which will cost £4. 83 Street T 020 7403 0222 Unicorn Theatre www.ftmlondon.org 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 5388 Shakespeare’s Globe will be part of www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk 147 Tooley Street T 08700 535500 this year’s Frost Fair when the Globe’s Saturday 2 December www.unicorntheatre.com Undercroft is transformed into a winter BARGAIN BIN ART FAIR Friday 8 to Saturday 9 December wonderland of snow covered fir trees Saturday 9 December 7.30pm-10.30pm; £3 CRAFT & DESIGN FAIR UNICORN’S FIRST BIRTHDAY and twinkling starlight. Twenty five 4WALL are sending out 500 blank traders from across the UK will sell 10am-6pm; £2 From 12 noon; free postcards and pencils to world famous Sale of , clothing, prints and The Unicorn is celebrating its first unique hand-made gifts including pens artists, celebrities, rock stars and homeware by over 30 contemporary birthday in Tooley Street, and Southwark and quills, wooden toys, hand knitted politicians - asking them to draw jumpers, scarves, hats and gloves designers, artists and craftspeople. residents are invited to join the . something, sign it and send it back. Southwark residents can claim up to four and stone sculptures. Visitors will be They will add all the art into a tombola Children’s activities, seasonal entertained by Elizabethan musicians, free tickets for peformances of Journey and sell 99p raffle tickets to anyone who refreshments and a luxury Christmas to the River Sea and The Gardener. These a recreation of gladiatorial combat and comes along. Buyers could get a Damien raffle with prizes donated by Borough a short Christmas play, George and the tickets can only be booked by calling 020 Hirst out of the hat but they could just as Market stallholders and other SE1 7645 0560 and quoting “Birthday Party” Dragon. All tickets for the play are £4 easily get a Wayne Smith from the pub and available on the day. businesses. along with address details. There will be across the road. free face painting, modelling and Red Cross Garden Design Museum Hankey Hall drumming workshops There are limited Redcross Way T 020 7403 3393 places for the drumming workshops, so Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Hankey Place www.designmuseum.org www.bost.org.uk book these free tickets in advance. Saturday 2 December Waterloo Tuesday 19 to Wednesday 20 December CHRISTMAS FETE Friday 8 December LATE NIGHT CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Lower Marsh and The Cut 11am WINTER IN THE PARK 6pm-9pm www.waterlooquarter.org Local resident Maria Walsh is 4pm-5pm; free Choose from an exciting selection commemorating the lives of her brother Join Bankside Open Spaces Trust when Thursday 7 December of products by the world’s leading and sister by organising a Christmas Fete. the Mayor of Southwark turns on Red CHRISTMAS AT WATERLOO designers including Alvar Aalto, Ettore Caroline died from Sudden Unexpected PIGS AND PRINCESSES Sottsass, Tord Boontje, Timorous Beasties Cross Garden’s lights. Death due to Epilepsy (SUDEP) in 2002 12 noon-8pm; free and Marc Newson. This is a perfect Mulled wine, live music and carols. and Phillip died from epilepsy-related The Christmas event in Waterloo has opportunity to find a last-minute present complications in 2003. Maria has chosen Southwark Cathedral a Pigs & Princesses theme to mark for a design-conscious friend, as well as to donate all proceeds to the charity the launch of the Young Vic’s family quirky stocking fillers, design cards and London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Epilepsy Bereaved. show The Enchanted Pig. There will be wrapping . Adding to the festive www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ activities from 12 noon till 8pm with a atmosphere, the Design Museum Cafe Hay’s Galleria along Lower Marsh Saturday 9 December will be serving Konditor & Cook mince Tooley Street selling creative Christmas present ideas pies and fragrant mulled wine, while www.haysgalleria.co.uk CHRISTMAS MARKET and late-night shopping in the numerous musical entertainment will be provided 11am-4pm; free independent shops. There will be live by a magical marionette performance. Thursday 28 December The annual popular event run by the music, street theatre, workshops for Design Museum members receive a 10% CRISIS WINTER WALKABOUT Friends of Southwark Cathedral. Stalls children on the Millennium Green and discount at the Shop and Cafe. Visitors Registration 1.30pm for a 2pm start; £15 will be selling Christmas decorations, festive food and drink. Characters from on both evenings will be offered the adult, £5 child, £30 family The Enchanted Pig will perform to the chance to view the current Design Crack the code and claim the treasure! toys and books. Food includes home- crowds from the theatre balcony from Museum exhibitions at a reduced entry Sponsored treasure hunt along the made jam and cakes. Also a tombola 5.30pm before processing to Emma fee of £4. Thames. Register via [email protected] and children’s area with activities and Cons Gardens for the switch-on of the www.crisis.org.uk/winterwalkabout competitions. Christmas tree lights at 6pm.   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CONTACT IA FOR 020 7921 9222 Tel: Fax:  e-mail:  ANY FURTHER DETAILS ON 020 7407 020 7357 7059 020 7357 7067 [email protected]     Making your    future secure 0955 or [email protected] 07818 641 731  December 2006 4 WHAT’S ON II www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Saturday 16 to Friday 22 December Old Operating Theatre, Children & Family Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 December Museum and Herb Garret Church Services THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE: TALES FROM NARNIA 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 www.thegarret.org.uk 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm Daily 10.30am-5pm; £4.75 (concessions Design Museum Meet the White Witch and find out what Christ Church Southwark £3.75, children £2.75); family ticket £12 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 happens to Peter, Susan, Edmund and 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 www.designmuseum.org www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk Lucy as they venture through the Winter Saturday 9 December Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Kingdom of Narnia. C. S. Lewis’ story 5.15pm); £7 (conc £4; under-12s free) ANATOMY SCHOOLS: FROM Thursday 21 December begins 1939 with the children being sent SHROUD TO SPECIMEN as evacuees to the countryside for safety. SERVICE Sundays 3 & 10 December 2pm 1.05pm-1.45pm Lunchtime Christmas As private anatomy schools flourished in DESIGNING CHRISTMAS Saturday 16 to Friday 22 December carol service with music by the Portcullis 2pm-5pm; Adult £7; child free Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 December the 18th Century, all were faced with one Singers. Illustrators and graphic designers help THE WINTER TREE problem: the lack of corpses available children to prepare for Christmas by 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm; free for dissection. To provide teaching Guy’s Chapel designing, making and decorating Create your own individual winter leaf specimens, even the most respectable of St Thomas’ Street festive cards, crackers and decorations. from an evacuee’s label to be added to surgeons had the same recourse - to the At the end of the workshop, the the White Witch’s trees to help recreate bodysnatcher! The chill of winter was the Sunday 3 December children bid for festive prizes in a special her Winter Kingdom. Art activity best time of year for anatomy lessons to CAROL SERVICE Christmas lucky dip. Suitable for children based on The Lion, the Witch and the take place - and the dark nights aided 6pm Advent Carol Service for the parish aged 6 to 12. Booking is essential on 020 Wardrobe. the bodysnatchers to visit graveyards of St George the Marytr, worshippng at 7940 8782. undiscovered... Old Operating Theatre, Guy’s Chapel during restoration works. Florence Nightingale Museum Museum and Herb Garret Tuesday 12 December Sunday 17 December St Thomas Hospital Lambeth Palace Road 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 THE DAY OF BLOOD: A LEECHING SERVICE OF NINE LESSONS AND T 020 7620 0374 www.thegarret.org.uk 6.30pm CAROLS www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Daily 10.30am-5pm; £4.75 (concessions The simple leech secretes a substance 6pm Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun 10am- £3.75, children £2.75); family ticket £12 called hirudin, an anticoagulant to keep 4.30pm; Adult £5.80, Concession £4.80, blood flowing from a wound while Thursday 21 December Family £16 Saturday 2 December it feeds. In this live demonstration of BUSINESS CAROL SERVICE HANDS ON: A HERBAL CHRISTMAS leeching, discover the beliefs behind the 1pm 40-minute lunchtime Carol Service. Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 December 2pm ancient practice of phlebotomy - and CHRISTMAS RIGHTS Make your own Christmas presents, or why leeches are still in use in medicine Monday 25 December Florence was passionate about people’s decorations for your Christmas tree, as today! right to health and worked hard for CHRISTMAS EUCHARIST you learn about old herbal remedies. 11am soldiers’ rights to dignity, respect and Take away pomanders, that people used Thursday 14 December appropriate care. Come and do your bit to think could guard against Plague, and SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN Southwark Cathedral for human rights today. On Saturday make sachets of sweet-smelling herbs. EYES: ART, ANATOMY, AND make and send a card for Amnesty London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 NEUROSCIENCE www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ International’s campaign Red Cross Garden 6.30pm Daily 8am-6pm; free and meet (£1 per child). Redcross Way T 020 7403 3393 Lecture by Dr Colin Stolkin (Department On Sunday, make a Victorian Christmas www.bost.org.uk of Anatomy, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Wednesday 6 December cracker. School of Medicine). Thursday 7 December CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING HMS Belfast CHRISTMAS: AFTER SCHOOL CLUB Southwark & Lambeth 5.30pm Choral Evensong for the Feast of Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 3.30pm-5pm; free Archaeological Society St Nicholas sung by the Merbecke Choir hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk Make a seasonal pomander to fragrance followed by the lighting of the Christmas Tree in the churchyard. The service also Summer 10am-6pm, Winter till 5pm your home. Make some Christmas Tuesday 12 December (last admission 45 minutes before close); decorations for the Red Cross Christmas TIMBER FRAMED SURREY marks the launch of Better Bankside’s charge applies; children free tree. For children aged 5 and above. 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm) at the annual ‘Bring a Better Christmas’ appeal. First come, first served. New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall, 106 Followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Thursday 28 & Friday 29 December THE BATTLE OF NORTH CAPE St Mary Magdalen The Cut; £1 AGM and lecture by Dennis Turner. Saturday 9 December 10am-5pm; £8.50; child free Bermondsey Street CRISIS CAROL SERVICE Professional actors and a team of living www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk 6.30pm The Thames Philharmonic history specialists stage an interactive six- Public meetings Choir leads the carols and singing of a scene play to put into context this hard- Sunday 24 December THE WONDER OF CHRISTMAS selection of seasonal songs. Readers fought naval engagement. Unfolding include Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. throughout the day on Thursday 28 4pm; free A celebration for families Lambeth Council In the presence of HRH Princess December and again on Friday 29 Alexandra, Patron of Crisis. Mince pies with children. www.lambeth.gov.uk December the re-enactment will help to served afterwards. Collection for Crisis, bring a part of HMS Belfast’s history to the national charity for single homeless life for visitors. Wednesday 13 December Talks & Lectures NORTH LAMBETH AREA people which every Christmas Crisis runs COMMITTEE centres giving 1500 homeless people Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 6.45pm at the Redfearn Centre, care, company and support. Free tickets london.iwm.org.uk Morley College Kennington Lane, SE11 from David Coulthread on 020 7426 3826 Daily 10am-6pm; free 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 Meeting for residents of the Waterloo or email [email protected] 7928 8501 area. Saturday 2 to Sunday 3 December www.morleycollege.ac.uk Sunday 17 December Saturday 9 to Sunday 10 December St Andrew’s Short Street CATHEDRAL CAROL SERVICE THE Monday 4 December Short Street 6.30pm This is the main Cathedral carol 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF service for parishioners, friends and An actor in the role of a First World War STANLEY SPENCER Tuesday 12 December visitors. It is not suitable for young soldier relates the story of the Christmas 1.05pm; free WATERLOO GREEN TRUST & children who have their own service with A lunchtime lecture in the Holst Room truce of 1914, and how soldiers coped WATERLOO MILLENNIUM GREEN parents on Christmas Eve. with winter in the trenches during the about artist Stanley Spencer by his friend TRUST AGMS First World War. Carolyn Lucas. 6.30pm Sunday 24 December Annual General Meetings of the two trusts followed by refreshments. 11.30pm The Bishop of Southwark is the Waterloo Action Centre preacher at this first Mass of Christmas. 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk Monday 25 December CHORAL EUCHARIST THE TRADITIONAL Monday 4 December 11am The Dean is the preacher at the WATERLOO ACTION CENTRE AGM main Christmas Day service. ACUPUNCTURE CENTRE 4.30pm 75 Roupell Street, London SE1 8SS • 020 7928 8333 Annual General Meeting of the St Alphege [email protected] • www.acupuncturecentre.org.uk important community resource in King’s Bench Street Waterloo. The meeting will include a presentation by Kevin Spacey, artistic Sunday 24 December The largest dedicated acupuncture clinic in director of The Old Vic. Old friends and MIDNIGHT MASS new local people welcome. 11.30pm The parish of St George the Europe established since 1983. More than Marytr, worshippng at St Alphege during Tuesday 5 December restoration works. 20 professionally qualified and registered COMMUNITY POLICE CONSULTATIVE practitioners of Chinese Medicine including Herbal GROUP FOR LAMBETH St Andrew’s Short Street 6pm Short Street Medicine and Tui Na (Chinese Medical Massage) These monthly meetings include a regular report from the Borough’s Sunday 3 December 5 minute walk from Waterloo, Waterloo East and Southwark stations Commander and senior team as well as ADVENT CAROL SERVICE themed sessions of topics of concern. 5pm Music and readings for Advent in Open 8am-9pm Mondays to Fridays • 9am-6pm Saturdays The emphasis is always on allowing Waterloo’s new church. Calm and tranquil atmosphere. public input into borough wide issues but also to provide an ‘open door’, Monday 25 December Free consultations to discuss whether where particular incidents can be raised. CHRISTMAS FAMILY MORNING treatment could be helpful for you. The theme of this meeting will be the 10am Presents with Father Christmas Safer Lambeth Partnership. 11am Carols round the Crib 11.30am pre- www.lambethcpcg.org.uk lunch drinks 12.30pm Lunch December 2006 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5 St John’s Waterloo Thursday 14 December Monday 4 December CHILDLINE CHRISTMAS CONCERT Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 THE INDIGO SAXOPHONE QUARTET Comedy www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 12.30pm-1.30pm; free 7pm A selection of light classical to more jazzy Two choirs present a family evening Sunday 10 December pieces. of song and celebration. Followed by Horse CAROL SERVICE mince pies and wine. For tickets email 5pm and readings at Charles Dickens Primary School [email protected] 122 Westminster Bridge Rd T 020 7928 6277 Waterloo’s parish church. Lant Street T 020 7407 1769 www.horsebar.co.uk www.charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk Sunday 10 December Thursday 21 December Sunday 10 December GUERRERO’S NATIVITY UP THE ARTS COMEDY CLUB SERVICE Saturday 16 December 7.45pm; £10 at the door 10.30am CHRISTMAS CONCERT 8.30pm; £4 (conc £3) A musical journey from Spain to Dead Elvis New Talent Award Winners 11am; free in the footsteps of the great Sunday 24 December Night with MC Paul Ricketts. Performance of solo and ensemble Renaissance composer Francisco Guerrero MIDNIGHT COMMUNION SERVICE work by Borough Music School pupils. Miller of Mansfield 11.45pm (with extracts from his travel diary). New Followed by light Christmas refreshments Renaissance Voices with the viols, shawms 96 Snowsfields Sunday 24 December Admission free. Silver collection for and recorders of The Iberian Archive. www.themiller.co.uk CRIB SERVICE school funds. Wednesday 6 December 5pm Christmas service for children Guy’s Chapel Wednesday 13 December CAROLS IN THE CITY UP THE ARTS COMEDY CLUB Monday 25 December St Thomas’ Street 7pm; £25 (including reception £50) from 8.30pm; £6 (concs £5) CHRISTMAS FAMILY COMMUNION 0800 716 146 Meryl O’Rourke, Clyde West, Caroline 10.30am The main Christmas Day service. Thursday 14 December Celebrity carol concert in aid of Marie Clifford, Andrew Wallace and Verity ANNA BANASZKIEWICZ Curie Cancer Care which provides high Welch. Sunday 31 December 1pm; free quality nursing, totally free, to give WATCH NIGHT SERVICE Violin recital by Anna Banaszkiewicz. terminally ill people the choice of dying Wednesday 20 December 7pm at home supported by their families. UP THE ARTS COMEDY CLUB Morley College 8.30pm; £6 (concs £5) St Mary Magdalen Patrons include Roger Lloyd Pack, Barry 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 Norman, Simon Williams and Penelope Ivor Dembina, Wes Packer, Nik Coppin, Bermondsey Street www.morleycollege.ac.uk Wilton. Carl Donnelly and Paul Ricketts. MC Peter www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk Tennant. Tuesday 5 December Sunday 17 December AUTUMN SONGS Friday 15 December 1.05pm; free CATHEDRAL CHOIR CONCERT Theatre 6.30pm A traditional Christmas carol Lunchtime concert in the Holst Room 7.30pm; £10 and £12 from 020 7367 service with six lessons. with Sarah Leonard (soprano) and 6703 or on the door Southwark Cathedral Choir and Jonathan Powell (piano). Songs by Bookshop Theatre Sunday 24 December Fauré, Rachmaninov and Joseph Marx. Chameleon Arts Orchestra. Drinks are MIDNIGHT COMMUNION available during the interval. The event 51 The Cut T 020 7593 1520 11.30pm The first Eucharist of Christmas. Tuesday 12 December raises money for the Choristers’ Fund. www.godotcompany.com ACCORDIONS AT MORLEY Monday 25 December Saturday 16 December Until Saturday 9 December CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICE 1.05pm; free LA MUSICA A lunchtime concert featuring accordions FINNISH CHURCH CHOIR 10.30am Main Christmas Day service. 2pm; free Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri/Sat 7.30pm; £7 (conc presented by Ian Watson. £5) St Thomas’ Hospital The Finnish Church Choir performs Museum of Garden History seasonal music. A rare gem in which Marguerite Duras Lambeth Palace Road explores her fascination with sex and love www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 affairs. Presented by the Godot Company www.museumgardenhistory.org Monday 18 December CANDLELIT CHRISTMAS CAROL and directed by Tamara Hinchco. Wednesday 6 December Daily 10.30am-5pm; voluntary charge £3 Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk A OF LESSONS AND (conc £2.50) CONCERT CAROLS 7.30pm Menier Chocolate Factory Carol concert with a gospel choir in aid 7pm; £10 from 020 7620 0374 Friday 8 December 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 The Friends of the Florence Nightingale THE GROVE SINGERS of the Variety Club Children’s Charity. www.menierchocolatefactory.com Museum annual carol service in the St 8pm (doors open 7pm); £10 Hosted by Angela Rippon with guests Thomas’ Hospital Chapel is followed by Seasonal concert featuring traditional including actress Joanna Lumley. Tickets Until Sunday 26 February wine and mince pies in the museum. and modern carols and other seasonal from Sarah Hodson on 020 7428 8122 or LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS songs, interspersed with readings email [email protected] Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £24 presented by a professional actor. (conc £16) Music Refreshments available from 7pm. Tuesday 19 December Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/1040 CATHEDRAL SING-IN For the first time in over 20 years the 12.45pm; free classic rock musical Little Shop of Horrors Southwark Cathedral Annual lunchtime sing-in for office is back on a London stage. Cast includes workers and the local community hosted Jasper Britton, Sheridan Smith, Paul 8 Southwark Street London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.boroughmarket.org.uk www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ by the Dean. Popular carols by request. Keating, Barry James and Mike McShane Daily 8am-6pm; free St Mary Magdalen National Theatre Thursday 7 December FULL FATHOM 5 Saturday 2 December Bermondsey Street South Bank T 020 7452 3000 www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk 12.30pm-1.30pm; free CHRISTMAS MUSIC AND OTHER www.nationaltheatre.org.uk A selection of Christmas music from WORKS Tuesday 19 December Until Thursday 5 January traditional carols to a Christmas 7.30pm; £7-£16 (conc £6-£13) from 020 CAROL SINGING AROUND THE Jazz Suite. Second in a series of free 8874 7462 CAROLINE, OR CHANGE PARISH Lyttelton Theatre; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; weekly concerts in the run up to the Christmas Music and other works for 6.20pm Bankside Frost Fair. Local employees choir, audience and organ. Bach - Lobet £10-£37.50 Carol singing around Bermondsey Street Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/622 are encouraged to bring along their den Herrn Sweeklinck - Hodie Christus and Square. The tour starts out from lunches and take a seat at one of Better natus est Weelkes - Gloria in excelsis British premiere of Tony Kusher’s St Mary’s and includes a visit to Tower intimate story about race and human Bankside’s pink tables and chairs. The Deo Jannequin - La Bataille de Marignan Bridge Care Centre. 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[email protected] Diane Ketteringham Party Bookings also available 020 7378 3430 020 8938 3112 www.SE1direct.co.uk Based in SE1 December 2006 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 Until Thursday 12 January to life in an atmospheric melding of Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk THE SEAFARER physical theatre, contemporary dance Exhibitions Cottesloe Theatre; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; and aerial artistry at the Queen Elizabeth Until Wednesday 26 April £10-£28 Hall this Christmas. HENRY MOORE: WAR AND UTILITY Conor Mcpherson makes his National www.rfh.org.uk/mermaid Bankside Gallery £7 (conc £5) Theatre debut directing his new play Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/685 set in Dublin on Christmas Eve. Sharky The Old Vic 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 More than 160 works produced between has returned to look after his irascible, 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 www.banksidegallery.com 1938 and 1954. Daily 10am-6pm; free ageing brother who’s recently gone www.oldvictheatre.com Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Until Saturday 23 December Until Sunday 3 December Jerwood Space Nicky are holed up at the house too, A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN ANITA KLEIN hoping to play some cards. But with the 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 £10, £15, £20, £28, £35, £45 Over twenty large oil paintings arrival of a stranger from the distant www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/40 past, the stakes are raised ever higher. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; free This powerhouse of a play reunites actor Thursday 7 December to Thursday 26 January In fact, Sharky may be playing for his Kevin Spacey with director Howard MINIATURE PICTURE SHOW very soul... Until Saturday 9 December Davies. Work by members of the Royal JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Watercolour Society and the Royal Until Thursday 12 January Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Prize-winners exhibition. Society of Painter-Printmakers. THERESE RAQUIN Unicorn Theatre Lyttelton Theatre; in repertory; £10-£28 The Bargehouse Until Monday 9 January 147 Tooley Street T 08700 535500 BENJAMIN SENIOR: REGENESIS Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/978 www.unicorntheatre.com Barge House Street T 020 7401 2255 Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law www.oxotower.co.uk Drawing installation. and a sickly husband, Therese Raquin Until Sunday 10 December Daily 11am-6pm; free Laura Bartlett Gallery falls passionately for another man. THE GARDENER Their feverish affair drives the lovers to Clore Theatre; times vary; £9.50 (conc Friday 1 to Sunday 10 December 22 Leathermarket Street T 020 7403 3714 an act of terrible desperation, which £6.50) ARTICULATED www.laurabartlettgallery.com catapults them headlong into a world A new play by award-winning writer A cross disciplinary art exhibition by Wed-Sun 12 noon-6pm or by appt; free more claustrophobic than the one Mike Kenny, A gentle tale about new pioneering digital artists the Light they sought to destroy. This gripping siblings, grandparents and growing and Surgeons. Until Saturday 16 December thriller, adapted by Zola himself from his changing. The story is told by one actor CYPRIEN GALLIARD: THE LAKE notorious novel, is seen here in a version accompanied by live accordion music. Design Museum ARCHES by Nicholas Wright whose recent work at Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 The first exhibition in the UK by Parisian the National includes Vincent in Brixton, Friday 8 December to Sunday 29 January www.designmuseum.org artist Cyprien Gaillard. JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission and his adaptations of Three Sisters and Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings His Dark Materials. Weston Theatre; times vary; £14.50 (conc 5.15pm); £7 (conc £4; under-12s free) £9.50) 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Until Saturday 14 January First produced at the Unicorn Theatre Until Sunday 8 January www.llewellynalexander.com WAVES in February, Journey to the River Sea DESIGN MART 2006 Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Cottesloe Theatre; in repertory; £10-£28 returns to London for the festive season Annual survey of emerging designers. A fragmented and dreamlike tale of following its national tour. A family Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Monday 11 December to Tuesday 3 January friendship, loss, identity and love. This musical for everyone aged 7+, Journey CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION multi-media production, devised by to the River Sea tells the story of a young Until Sunday 19 February Katie Mitchell and the Company, is based girl; Maia, who leaves Edwardian London ALAN FLETCHER: FIFTY YEARS OF London College of Communication on Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking following the death of her parents to live GRAPHIC WORK (AND PLAY) Elephant & Castle experiment in literary form, The Waves. with distant relatives in the Amazon. Alan Fletcher (1931-2006) was among the www.lcc.arts.ac.uk most influential figures in the history of Until Saturday 21 January Union Theatre British graphic design. Until Sunday 3 December CORAM BOY INTERSECTIONS 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 Elspeth Kyle Gallery Olivier Theatre www.uniontheatre.org An exhibition of unusual street Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/848 1st & second floors, 233 Blackfriars Road photography produced by globe-trotting The phenomenal sell-out production Until Saturday 23 December www.novas.org New York entrepreneur Victor Politis. returns to the National. A tale of two I SING! Wed, Thu, Fri 10am-5pm; free cities: Gloucester and London. A tale Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 3pm; (also Sat 23 Menier Gallery of two orphans at the Coram Hospital Dec 3pm); £17.50 (conc £12.50) Until Saturday 16 December 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 5388 for Deserted Children: Toby, saved from Off-Broadway musical receives its UK and WORLDS APART www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk an African slave ship and Aaron, the European premiere. Starring West End Novas Arts Thames Reach’s Vision Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free abandoned son of the heir to a great regulars Joanna Ampil and Debbie Kurup Impossible presents a sharply contrasting estate. A tale of fathers and sons, set in alongside Neighbours and Hollyoaks in exhibition of works from nine homeless, Until Saturday 2 December the dark heart of 18th-century England. the City actor Adam-Jon Fiorentino and ex-homeless or insecurely housed artists GUMBO ILLUSTRATIVE COLLECTIVE An epic adventure filled with danger and introducing Declan Harvey and George living in the UK. Illustrators based in London and Bristol. excitement. Miller. f a projects Young Vic Monday 4 to Saturday 9 December Network Theatre 1-2 Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 DOUBLEHAPPY www.faprojects.com 246a Lower Road The Cut T 020 7928 6363 A vibrant exhibition of contemporary www.youngvic.org Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; free www.networktheatre.org work in keeping with the festive season/ Until Saturday 2 December Until Saturday 16 December Until Saturday 16 December Morley College THE MERCHANT OF VENICE LOVE AND MONEY GUY ALLOTT: THE SPACE RACE 61 Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7928 8501 7.30pm; £8 (conc £7) Maria Theatre; Mon-Sat 7.45pm; £15.50 New paintings and sculptures. (conc available) www.morleycollege.ac.uk Shakespeare’s dark comedy directed by Fashion & Textile Museum Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 12-4pm; late Ben Robb. Love and Money, a hard-hitting new play by Dennis Kelly. 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 0222 night Thu to 7pm; free Queen Elizabeth Hall Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk www.ftmlondon.org Until Wednesday 13 December Belvedere Road 10am-6pm; free www.rfh.org.uk Friday 1 December to Saturday 28 January LONDON POTTERS THE ENCHANTED PIG Until Sunday 10 December The London Potters annual members’ Saturday 23 December to Sunday 8 January Mon-Sat 7.30pm and occasional PRODUCTION LINES exhibition in the Morley Gallery features THE MERMAID matinees; £21.50 (conc available) Contemporary illustration & live painting ceramics and which is functional Tues - Sat at 7:30pm; Sat & Sun matinees The Christmas family show is a musical by collective 4WALL. New work from all and sculptural. Most work is for sale. at 2pm (no matinee 23 Dec)Tickets: based on a Romanian folktale. Music by of 4WALL’s artists plus special guests. Jonathan Dove with words by Alasdair National Theatre www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/1125 HMS Belfast The Mermaid (Havfruen) brings Hans Middleton. South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Christian Andersen’s classic dark fairytale Morgans Lane, Tooley Street 020 7940 6300 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk Foyers open Mon-Sat 10am-11pm; free Summer 10am-6pm, Winter till 5pm (last admission 45 minutes before close); Until Saturday 2 December Blackfriars charge applies; children free REUTERS - THE STATE OF THE WORLD Wine Bar Until Sunday 10 December The key events of the new century THE SEAMSTRESS AND THE SEA: captured by photojournalists. The South Bank’s best kept secret invites ROZANNE HAWKSLEY Encounter the harsh reality of one Monday 11 December to Saturday 28 January you to discover the charm of an authentic sailor’s life in the early twentieth century THE ART OF THE THEATRE WINE BAR through the innovative combination of WORKSHOP textiles and objects. How the Theatre Workshop’s political We have an extensive range of over 100 Until Sunday 31 December and artistic principles broke with different wines from the Old and New World GHOSTS OF JUTLAND the traditions of the day is shown in Commemorating 90th anniversary. photographs and designs. Merry Christmas to all our customers Imperial War Museum Novas Gallery Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road T Lunches Monday to Friday • Evening meals Tuesday to Friday london.iwm.org.uk 0870 906 3200 Daily 10am-6pm; free www.novas.org Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat & Sun 11am- Open 10am till late Monday to Friday Until Sunday 23 April 4pm; free THE ANIMALS’ WAR ARCH 80, SCORESBY STREET, SOUTHWARK £6 (conc £5, children £4) Until Sunday 17 December Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/160 POWER AND MAN ONDON EL L SE1 T : 020 7928 0905 The remarkable role of animals in 20 contemporary printmakers from 3 mins from Southwark station • 5 mins from Tate Modern conflict. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. December 2006 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Old Operating Theatre, The Walk Gallery BOOK REVIEW Museum and Herb Garret 23 King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 9a St Thomas Street T 020 7188 2679 www.walkgallery.com www.thegarret.org.uk Mon-Fri 10.30am-6pm; free Peter Layton’s Friends: Daily 10.30am-5pm; £4.75 (concessions £3.75, children £2.75); family ticket £12 Until Friday 15 December DAVID CARR: RECENT WORK: OILS, Until Friday 15 December WATERCOLOURS AND Celebrating London Glassblowing SPECIMEN: OOT REDUX 50 - SEEDS Figurative painting in oils, watercolours OF MEMORY: ART, NEUROSCIENCE and etchings. Compiled by Peter Layton • Halsgrove • £19.99 AND BOTANY Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Waterloo Gallery rediscovery of the 19th Century Women’s 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 9080 Operating Theatre of Old St Thomas’s www.waterloogallery.co.uk Hospital, a site-specific exhibition of Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-4pm; free Thirty years ago Peter Layton founded the London artworks exploring a visual language for the changing pharmacological landscape Until Saturday 2 December Glassblowing Centre in and a decade of memory. INBETWEEN TIMES Sonya Vine ago he moved the operation to Bermondsey’s Poussin Gallery Monday 4 to Saturday 16 December Block K, 175 Bermondsey St T 020 7403 4444 Leathermarket. In 1976 it was Britain’s first www.poussin-gallery.com FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS Wed-Sat 1pm-7pm; free www.projectsurprise.com glassblowing workshop. Peter, who as young man turned his back the security of a well-paid job in Saturday 2 to Saturday 16 December Movie highlights POUSSIN REVIEW 2006 textiles, has become the ambassador of British glass. This seemingly rash switch First ten Poussin shows are reprised. is not so surprising when one learns that his father had been manager of a glass Purdy Hicks Gallery BFI IMAX factory in Czechoslovakia. Indeed Peter was born in Prague and had only 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 Charlie Chaplin Walk T 020 7902 1234 landed in English textiles due to the Second World War. www.purdyhicks.com www.bfi.org.uk/imax Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (wed 7pm); Sat & His brother, the actor George Layton, contributes the first chapter with the Sun 12 noon-5pm; free Friday 8 to Sunday 24 December family background. Ten people now work at the glassblowing centre and some HAPPY FEET Until Friday 22 December £12; child £8 of these add their memories and tributes to Peter who continues working on ALCHEMY: TRANSFORMATIONS IN Blockbuster film in IMAX format. commissions. CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY The Coronet The book has wonderful photographs of his colourful work. A black and Southwark Cathedral 28 New Kent Road T 020 7701 1500 white picture shows him with fellow student David Hockney. London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.coronettheatre.co.uk www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral/ This year is the 50th anniversary of Peter joining the very first glassblowing Daily 8am-6pm; free Friday 1 December ELEFEST: SHORT FILM PREMIERE workshop at the University of Iowa. He was also one of the original participants Until Wednesday 1 February 7pm; free in Harvey Littleton’s Toledo Glass Workshops. A PHOTOGRAPHIC OSSUARY Premiere of a short film made specifically In 2003 Peter was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bradford University An exhibition in the Refectory featuring for the festival in a series of workshops photographs by Robin Kirk. followed by a screening of films/videos and now has work in twelve major museums including the V&A and the made by people who live, work or study Fitzwilliam at Cambridge. St John’s Waterloo in the area. Waterloo Road T 020 7928 2003 Colleagues stress that Peter has always been generous to fellow glass www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Friday 1 December ELEFEST: ECHO PARK LA artists. His Czech background was put to good use as indicated in the Czech Friday 8 December to Thursday 9 February (QUINCEANERA) Connection chapter which credits Peter with bringing glass out from the Iron SCENES OF LONDON LIFE 8.30pm; free Curtain through international conferences. Celebrating 80 years of Waterloo-based Richard Glatzer, USA, 2006, 90 mins, housing trust Central & Cecil. English and Spanish with subtitles Peter Layton’s own chapter is called An Addiction to Glass. Swan Mead Gallery London College of Communication Swan Mead Rd T 020 7394 0733 Elephant & Castle www.kittynorth.com www.lcc.arts.ac.uk Mon-Fri 10am-6pm (Sat by appt); Saturday 2 December Until Friday 22 December ELEFEST: PASSPORT TO PIMLICO BOOK REVIEW LIFE ON THE LAND 1pm; free New work by Kitty North, contemporary Henry Cornelius, UK, 1949, 84 mins painter of landscapes and people. Saturday 2 December The English Year Tate Modern ELEFEST: THE LAVENDER HILL MOB Bankside T 020 7887 8888 3pm; free Steve Roud • Penguin Reference • £30 www.tate.org.uk/modern Charles Crichton, UK, 1951, 78 mins Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 10am- Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books 10pm; free Tate Modern Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Until Sunday 15 January www.tate.org.uk/modern Steve Roud’s invaluable reference book explaining PETER FISCHLI & DAVID WEISS Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 10am- £7 (conc £5.50) 10pm; free the rhythm of our English year has a splendid cover First UK retrospective. Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Monday 4 December depicting the Frost Fair on Thames in 1683 when COMMUNITY FILM CLUB: OLIVER Until Sunday 22 January 7pm (refreshments from 6.30pm); free Charles II was on the throne. DAVID SMITH: A CENTENNIAL 1968 colour musical. 139 minutes. The vantage point is The Temple foreshore looking across at a crowded £7 (conc £5.50) Membership of the Community Film Influential American sculptor. Club is primarily aimed at those living Bankside with Southwark Cathedral’s tower standing out alongside the now lost and working in Southwark. To become a St Olave’s in Tooley Street. In between are the bright tents and shacks of the fair. the.gallery@oxo member email communityfilmclub@tate. Oxo Tower Wharf, T 020 7401 2255 org.uk or join on the night. The Frost Fair has been restored on Bankside but this comprehensive www.oxotower.co.uk book highlights another important English landmark in the calendar which Daily 11am-6pm; free Southwark has not brought back. Until Sunday 3 December TOYS@OXO Southwark Fair has an entry although it was suppressed on its 300th Wooden toys for sale. Advertise here annivrrsary in 1762 as it was thought to be leading to the “destruction of youth Friday 8 December to Monday 2 January of both sexes”. John Evelyn, Samuel Pepys and Hogarth were among the visitors. COLIN O’BRIEN: RETROSPECTIVE The fair, second only in importance to Bartholomew Fair according to this IMAGES in January Colin O’Brien’s photographs take a book, originally ran from 7 to 9 September marking the patronal festival of the nostalgic look back at life. Priory (now Cathedral) celebrated on Our Lady’s Birthday 8 September. The Union Gallery 1752 change of calendar moved it to the 18 September for its last decade when 57 Ewer Street T 020 7928 3388 the puppet shows, booths and tippling houses started to be a bad influence. www.union-gallery.com Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12 noon-5pm; free Call us now The book (which also illustrates Mothering Sunday with a 1936 picture of children at St Jude’s in St George’s Road) records plenty of ancient still Until Saturday 28 January MIKE MARSHALL 020 7633 0766 championed by their communities. South London-based Steve Roud, who has Solo exhibition of new works. been researching folklore and customs for over thirty years, may be challenging [email protected] us to think about a revival. December 2006 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 BOOK REVIEW SHOPPING Bermondsey Boy Discounts at Oxo Tommy Steele • Penguin/ Michael Joseph • £18.99 • Buy online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Tower Wharf and Tommy Steele devotes most of this During the war he moved to Nickleby House at Dockhead where he was rescued from a bed showered Gabriel’s Wharf very enjoyable book to the time with glass splinters on night that Holy Trinity was when his home was Bermondsey. bombed. Safety was a shelter at Hay’s Wharf. He Design shops at Oxo Tower There is little here of his many years recalls other nights spent listening to bombs falling in Wharf and Gabriel’s Wharf are of fame but surprising detail about Tabard Street. When peace came he sold papers outside offering special discounts from childhood in unfashionable SE1. Southwark Cathedral to raise money for his training 5 to 10 December inclusive. He was born just before the Second World War as a steward aboard ship. He would often leave home and is able to describe the area during the Thirties Many of the 50+ design shops for a round trip to New York or a series cruises where at both wharves are pleased to when his grandmother lived opposite the Ship he mixed with very rich people from far countries. Aground. He lived in Mason Street. On leave he met at a party on the provide at least 10% discount His Saturday morning duty was to get up at 6am bomb site opposite the Old Vic. Then home was or other multi purchase offers to secure a place in the queue at Bermondsey Baths for a house in Frean Street but Tommy’s stage success a ticket for his mother who would arrive at 9am with on presentation of this issue of meant that he and the family soon moved to Catford in SE1. the washing. Mum worked at Peak Freans. to enjoy a bathroom. And, on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 from 12noon to 4pm, readers can also claim a free mulled wine and enjoy live festive music under the bandstand at Gabriel’s Wharf.

OXO TOWER WHARF Black + Blum – interior products Pigs & Princesses 15% off everything r Anne Kyyro Quinn - textiles Decembe CHR 15% off all non discounted items Thursday 7th ISTMAS AT WATERLOO Locomocean - lighting 12.00-8.00pm Special deals

Odie & Amanda – fashion and accessories 10% off everything Christmas Market and switch-on of 5.30pm Bodo Sperlein – bone china home accessories by characters from the Characters from The Enchanted 10% off everything Young Vic’s new show, The Enchanted Pig. Pig perform from the balcony aei:kei - fashion at the Young Vic and proceed 10% off clothes All day Christmas Market in Lower Marsh, to Emma Cons Gardens. Skylark 2 – artist run gallery live music and street animation. 10% off everything 6.00pm Bagman & Robin – bags and accessories Tree dressing for children on Waterloo 10% on selected items Millennium Green from 10am. Switch on of the Christmas Salt – interior textiles and window treatments tree lights and Carol singing 10% on all orders placed 5-10 Dec with Morley College Choir John Freeman – photographer around the tree – a gift from 15% off everything the Norwegian Embassy. Joseph Joseph – kitchen and tableware design 10% off everything 12.00-8.00pm Onebravo – interior products 15% off everything contemporary decorative mirrors

Shopping in Waterloo, music and Innermost – lighting and interior products Christmas market in Lower Marsh 20% off everything until 8.00pm. Michele Oberdieck – hand printed textiles for interiors and fashion 10% off everything GABRIEL’S WHARF Skylark Gallery – artist run gallery 10% off everything . David Ashton - jewellery 10% off everything

Heads Rule Hearts – hats and accessories This event is being led by Waterloo 10% off adult hats & clothes Quarter Business Alliance. WQBA is a business-led organisation committed Riverside Therapies – alternative therapies to improving Waterloo. Working 10% off all therapies with and for businesses in the Ganesha – interiors and fashion purchased from co- locality, we want to improve the surroundings ops in India and entice more people into the area. 3 for 2 on bags, wallets & purses. www.waterlooquarter.org Mikala Djorup jewellery 10% off everything

The design shops at Oxo Tower Wharf and Gabriel’s Wharf are open Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm for WAEN Christmas shopping till 4pm on 23 December.

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